Solutions Engineer III

At F5 we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create secure and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers and their customers better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

About the Company:

F5 technologies are at the heart of modern applications that are enabling digital transformation across the globe. We give the worlds largest businesses service providers governments and consumer brands the ability to securely deliver every app anywherewith confidence. We do this by working collaboratively in an innovative environment helping each other succeed. We take great pride in being trusted advisers to our customers offering the best solutions for their interests. If our mission and culture excite you we would love to talk with you!

About our Job Postings:

When applying for any of the roles in F5 please note our ideal candidate is not necessarily someone who meets all the posted fact this is just a representative of how we know the job has been done in the past. We would love to talk to you even if you dont check all the boxes here but believe you bring your own unique capabilities that can be utilized to ensure the success of the role and the organization.

The SE Job Overview:

The Solutions Engineer (SE) is a sales and technical role with focus on customer/partners and is part of theXC Specialistsales organization. TheSEs primary responsibility is to support the sales team with technical skills and provide technical knowledge aroundF5 Distributed cloudto our be effective aSpecialist SEneeds to have excellent technical skills and knowledge on both F5 products and the eco-system that we work in. Fear not we do provide training and certification to keep abreast with these critical skills!

Thehigh-levelobjective is to achieve the allocated sales target and selling F5Distributed Cloudsolutions to address our customers business needs in partnership with theSpecialistSales Account Manager. Fromourcustomersperspectives the SE is a trusted adviser who proactively learns and understands their technical and business challenges andproposes effective solutions to address their F5 SE presents the technical capabilities and importantly the business benefits in the technical value proposition.

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What youll do:

Articulate the F5productstrategymessaging and positioningF5 Distributed Cloudsvalue propositionand solutionsfor customer business objectives
Providetechnical expertise through sales presentations solution designs solution demonstrationsproofs of conceptbyvarious mediums: in-person virtual presentations white boardingetc.
Determine viability of opportunity and map out organizational structure.
Drive the sales process in partnership with the Account Manager by identifying the Technical Decision Maker getting their technical validation support and sponsorship.
Consistently provide world-class customer servicethrough the customer life cycle.
Work collaboratively with internal technical and salesresources share best practices updatesofferand seekexpertise as the need arisesin various opportunities.

How youll do it:

Experience in secure Cloud architectures in: AWS Azure GCP or other public clouds
CI/CD experience (automate build and test pipelines with GitOps Jenkins etc.)
Experience with multi-cloud design
Experience with cloud instrumentation and configuration management tools for deployment such as GKE Kubernetes Terraform Ansible etc.
Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus Datadog and Grafana
Experience in software development in Go Python Ruby scripting languages

What youll bring:

5 years of related industry experience
BS/BA or equivalent work experience
Familiarity/experience withF5or similar industrysolution deploymenta plus
Relevant certifications a plus

What youll get:

The nature of the role could require travelup to50%of the time and working across time zones
This is a self-driven roleso career growth and developmentisavailable at every stage of your career.
Competitive payfamily friendly benefits and cool perks
Tuition assistance for professional development
Culture of giving back strongdiversity and inclusioninterest groups

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However the description may not be all-inclusive and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age sensory physical or mental disability marital status veteran or military status genetic information or any other classification protected by applicable local state or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment including but not limited to hiring job assignment compensation promotion benefits training discipline and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting .